| TABULARASA | Philosophical conception of a human mind devoid of innate conceptions and goals, as at birth; Latin, 'scraped tablet' (6,4) |
| IDEAL | Pride altered innate conception of something that is perfect |
| SPLITENDS | Leave goals as a problem at the highest level? (5,4) |
| INUTERO | Before birth (Latin) |
| IDEA | One's conception of a scheme |
| IMMACULATE | Faultless conception of a particular religion? |
| NOUMENON | The intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception |
| GESTATION | The development of the embryo of a viviparous mammal between conception and birth (9) |
| NATURAL | Synonym of organic, pure or raw; a buff colour; a person of innate talent; a white piano key; or, a musical note, neither flat nor sharp, denoted J (7) |
| CONDORCET | Marquis de ___, 18th-century French philosopher and politician whose works include Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind |
| SCHEMA | In Kantian philosophy, a conception of what is common to all members of a class |
| PSYCHOLOGY | The science and study of the human mind and related behaviour (10) |
| WOMBS | Organs of conception and gestation in women and other female mammals |
| ODDSANDENDS | Likelihood and goals of bits and pieces (4,3,4) |
| GAELICFOOTBALL | An Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net at the bottom (6,8) |
| PSYCHE | Greek word literally meaning "soul" used to describe the totality of the human mind, consciousness and spirit (6) |
| DEMENTOR | A soulless phantom who gradually deprives human minds of happiness and intelligence in the Harry Potter stories |
| HOCKEY | Sport involving curved sticks, a ball and goals (6) |
| UDDER | The mammary gland of female cattle, sheep and goals (5) |
| CAMPANOLOGIST | He rings the changes as politician in action, and goal's revised (13) |
